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Tranquil vs Welfare - What's the difference?

tranquil | welfare |

As an adjective tranquil

is free from emotional or mental disturbance.

As a noun welfare is

(uncountable) health, safety, happiness and prosperity; well-being in any respect.

tranquil

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Free from emotional or mental disturbance.
  • * 1847 , , chapter XXVIII
  • Some time passed before I felt tranquil even here: I had a vague dread that wild cattle might be near, or that some sportsman or poacher might discover me.
  • Calm; without motion or sound.
  • * 1921 , Douglas Wilson Johnson, Battlefields of the World War, Western and Southern Fronts: A Study in Military Geography , page 262
  • that the streams which did form were clear and tranquil' because fed by perennial springs from the underground supply; and that in their ' tranquil waters extensive peat bogs formed.

    Synonyms

    * (free from emotional disturbance) calm, peaceful, serene, steady * peaceful

    Antonyms

    * (free from emotional disturbance) agitated

    welfare

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Health, safety, happiness and prosperity; well-being in any respect.
  • * , chapter=19
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare . Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
  • (uncountable, chiefly, US) Various forms of financial aid provided by the government to those who are in need of it (abbreviated form of Welfare assistance ).
  • Synonyms

    * income support, public assistance, social security

    Antonyms

    * evilfare * illfare * woefare * wofare

    See also

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